Scarlett approaches kissing like she does everything else: with a fierce intensity and a desire to win. Whoever thinks you can't win at kissing is clearly doing it wrong.
Apparently friendship means nothing in the kissing circle because when the bottle lands on him, indicating that he's supposed to head off to the hot air balloon with his friend's younger sister, he laughs brightly and gives Scarlett a grin. "What do you think? Does this count as team building?" He clearly has no objections.
"Depends what we do in there," Scarlett replies, grinning back at Aris and taking his hand so she can tug him towards the balloon. Not that he looks like he needs tugging but, you know. She's forceful.
Aris doesn't mind forceful. That's part of why he and Scarlett have always gotten along. Following along as the girl pulls him by the hand, he concedes, "You've got a point. So...what do you want to do?" As if on cue, the ladder drops from the balloon, inviting them to climb up. Ladies first, Scar.
"Guess you're gonna find out," Scarlett sings as she pulls herself effortlessly up the ladder. As partners go, she's pretty pleased the bottle landed on Aris for this. "And don't think I don't know you're checkin' out my ass right now." She hopes he's checking out her ass, anyway. She looks damn fine in these jeans.
"You're not supposed to use legilimency on other students," Aris returns with a playfully matter-of-fact tone, very cleverly (in his tipsy opinion) avoiding the need to directly acknowledge her point. Then he follows her up, climbing the ladder and pulling himself into the balloon. The space is tighter than he'd expected and he sits close to Scarlett, only looking away from her when the balloon begins to drift.
"Well, if I can't use my mind-readin' powers, guess you're gonna have to tell me what you want to do now," Scarlett says, giving Aris a little poke in the leg. She thinks she's being very witty too. "Or do you just wanna admire the view?"
"I want to admire the view," Aris returns, but only after turning his attention back to Scarlett and offering her another grin. Does he know this sounds like a lame pickup line? Oh yeah. But he doesn't seem to care. They're just having some fun, aren't they? He leans in, putting his hand on her hip before he goes in for a light first kiss.
Edited (Please push him out of the balloon, Scarlett.) 2020-02-01 20:33 (UTC)
Maybe it should give her pause that Scarlett is the same age as her youngest brother, but Jupiter doesn't seem to mind too terribly much. She leans in to meet her for a smooch, and hesitates with a smile, just to let the wee Hatfield decide how this'll go.
Scarlett's seen enough sophomores (and freshmen, but they really are babies) rejected by seniors tonight. That sure as hell ain't gonna happen to her. When Jupiter hesitates, Scarlett opens her mouth to say something cocky (and probably ridiculous) like what, scared you can't handle all this? But at the last second she decides she doesn't want to give Jupiter a chance to rethink this, and closes the gap between them. This makes it seem like she was going in straight for an open-mouthed kiss. Oops?
Jupiter goes wide-eyed and jolts — congratulations, Scarlett, you threw off a Quigley — but Jup also rewards this tenacity by kissing her back, though in less than two seconds she's laughing very loud, which ruins the effect.
"Damn girl," Jup compliments, slapping Scarlett on the shoulder. And then to the rest of the circle she announces, "This one brings it."
"Hell yeah I do," Scarlett blusters, acting like she totally meant to do that -- but unable to look Jupiter in the eye as she quickly scoots back to her place in the circle. Not what she intended... but not a bad experience either.
💋💋 SCARLETT 💋💋 - Jupiter, Skip, Aristotle, OPEN!
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"Damn girl," Jup compliments, slapping Scarlett on the shoulder. And then to the rest of the circle she announces, "This one brings it."
💋💋 SCARLETT & JOOP 💋💋